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TESTIMONIALS

Mike has worked with me and my family on and off for a while now.  He suggested EMDR and I was game to try anything to get my sense of balance back!  One session is all it took for my childhood traumas to be eradicated. I have never in my life felt so confident and capable.  I truly would recommend EMDR to anyone! ​

 

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First of all the explanation of the Tx made me feel more comfortable.  I was dreading the thought of having to talk about my whole mental health history.  I have done that so many times before.  After the session of EMDR I felt lighter and no longer did my past seem to control me.  Thank you.  I did not know I could feel like this again.

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Driving home I was thinking about the session, trying to anyways, the only thing I can say is yes, the memories are there, but I've dealt with them finally and I don't feel that pain.  I feel overwhelming love. They have been filed in the Resolved Case Files all because of EMDR !  I feel Strong !  I highly recommend EMDR.

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Words cannot explain the experience I just had.  I feel as if a lifetime of Counseling and Therapy was done in an hour.  I have been in therapy and seen doctors since I was young and have never had such a feeling of relief.  I want to thank you again for the relief given me and the weight that has been lifted off of my shoulders.

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I was struggling with a memory from my childhood that seemed to affect my daily life for many years. It was a heavy weight of fear and anger that I carried subconsciously. 

 

After one session of EMDR with Mike I walked out with a greater understanding of the event that had effected me my entire life.  As I went through the process I began to remember other suppressed memories that I was able to process as well. 

 

I walked out of that session able to breath and being freed of my fears and inhibitions that I had carried because of the trauma I had experienced. 

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This a follow-up to my earlier email regarding my EMDR session with Mike. 

 

I have been tracking my sleep patterns with a Fitbit charge 4 for several months. 

Prior to my session with Mike, I was averaging are between a 70 to 75 weekly.  My average REM CYCLES were around 10-15% a night. 

 

Since my EMDR session, I am now averaging a weekly sleep score between 76 to 85.  I am hitting REM CYCLE on average of 15-18% of the night. 

 

Your light sleep and REM cycles make up 25% of your overall sleep scores. 

 

Needless to say since my EMDR session my sleep cycles have tremendously gotten better.  I do not wake from nightmares and feel more rested than ever before. 

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I was totally anxious about getting this treatment.  I had to fight urge to cancel.  So glad I followed through.  First of all the explanation of the treatment made me feel more comfortable.  I was dreading the thought of having to talk about my whole mental health history.  I have done that so many times before.

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Really felt strange to mentally go over the past and not be able to feel and then you (Mike) hit the right issue and I felt it like it was happening. 

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Afterwards I felt relaxed, tired and just weird.  I did what I do every day later yesterday and read Facebook.  One of the sites involved people I worked with for 28 years.  Every time I go there I feel down, angry, sad and embarrassed. Yesterday I read it and didn't feel anything.  Like reading a book.  I have no idea how you are different after this tx. I can say so far I feel calmer.

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I have been working on my personal growth and healing as my number 1 importance for over 6 years now. It started with CBT then branched out to meditation and other holistic healing modalities.  While I seen progress and growth I still had remnants of the trauma to where certain things would still trigger me. Nightmares were still present.  I ended my 13 year marriage this year and my triggers escalated, my nightmares overwhelmed my sleep.  Mike has worked with me and my family on and off for a while now he suggested EMDR and I was game to try anything to get my sense of balance back!  One session is all it took for my childhood traumas to be eradicated.  I put myself in the trauma and then just let the EMDR do the work.  It has been several weeks now I haven't had a single nightmare and when I have to be faced with something that used to be triggering now my mind goes to "Wow you are such a strong and amazing woman You survived that as a child there's nothing you can't handle as an adult" I feel confident and strong and capable in situations that used to leave me feeling scared and disgusting and defenseless.  I have never in my life felt so confident and capable.  I truly would recommend EMDR to anyone!

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Thank you for introducing me to EMDR.  When you had first mentioned EMDR, I was a little skeptical about it.  During the session, I thought about a moment that was a trauma trigger for me, and it made me very uncomfortable.  As I continued through the process, I felt my emotions calm down, and the memory wasn’t emotional for me anymore.  Even after the session was finished, I was still skeptical about EMDR.  For the next week, I randomly thought about the memory that had once been a trauma trigger for me, and I felt nothing.  It was wild that something that once was a trauma trigger had become just a simple fact.  I highly recommend this for anyone that has unresolved trauma.

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